PaulPot

Forestier, j'aurais préféré être chasseur-cueilleur

[Mia ✦彡 @mia_novakova]

you shiver and the city shivers with you

[Astro sam @astro_samira_b]

alors je suis novice en nucléaire, mais si j'ai bien compris ce que je viens de lire, Superphénix pouvait être refroidi sans électricité avec de l'air ?

On avait un réacteur où l'accident de Fuskushima ne pouvait pas arriver ? 🤯

(et on l'a fermé)

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.

[HZK | 恥ずかしい @Hazukashi1]

[Thread] : la transgression comme rite de passage à l’âge adulte en Occident (au programme : Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, rituels et tabous) 🔽

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Parents who raise their kids on realistic content are performing a kind of soul circumcision without anesthesia, and they do it proudly. they buy the little books about sharing and recycling and how divorce is okay, sensible books, vetted books, books approved by some committee of childless phds who decided that dragons are psychologically destabilizing. and then this denuded little creature grows up and wanders out into a world that is absolutely crawling with dragons, real ones, humans who feed on humiliation, women who collect men like scalps, landlords, banks, algorithms, addictions, each one an ancient monster. and the kid has nothing, no stored narrative of the small weak thing prevailing, no memory of stones becoming bread or dead girls waking up. his parents gave him nutritious facts and he stands there starving in front of his first real giant with a stomach full of information. meanwhile some other kid whose grandmother filled him with absolute garbage, nonsense talking wolves, magic beans, boys made of wood, walks up to the same giant and something old activates in him. he knows somewhere deep in the meat of him that giants are a problem with a known solution, that has been handled before, by smaller people than him, with worse weapons

[Rouge 🇫🇷 @BaguetteWeapons]

Quand des détenus rendent la justice plus efficacement et plus rapidement que les juges

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Dutch intelligence agencies got caught training AI on citizen data they weren't supposed to have.

the CTIVD, the Netherlands' official intelligence oversight body, published a report finding that AIVD and MIVD staff accessed and retained massive bulk datasets in ways that violate Dutch law.

names. phone numbers. location data. social media. communication content. millions of entries. some from government sources. some commercially purchased. some stolen by criminals and bought on the dark web.

and then Bits of Freedom, the Dutch digital rights organization, flagged something buried in the report: the agencies appear to be training their own AI models on this data.

this is not the first time.

in 2020, the same watchdog found the same agencies had retained citizen data far beyond legal limits. after complaints, they were ordered to delete it.

six years later: same report. same finding. same agencies.

but now with AI in the loop.

the data that was illegally retained is now reportedly being used to train models that will make future surveillance faster, more accurate, and more autonomous.

you cannot opt out. Unlike commercial AI companies, there is no settings menu. no privacy center. no right to delete that you can actually exercise.

Bits of Freedom put it directly:

"They seem to be buying data from criminal data breaches. aren't they supposed to be protecting us from those?"

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

There is… an elixir… to help with this…..

[BadRobo82 @BRobo82]

Just look at that beautiful green sub-surface scattering on the wave. All running on a machine with 64 MB of RAM and 0.02 teraflops of power.

[𝐬𝐨𝐯 ᯓ ✈︎ @sovietsoleri]

Barber shop "Julio" inside Mayfair In The Grove mall, Miami, 1981.

[Überkierkegaard @UberKierk]

You can only think like this after 122 days without ejaculation

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

I know two men: one built a garden in his backyard that ate four years of his life, fixed his neighbors porch without his neighbor ever finding out it was him, wrote something once, something heavy i could tell by the way he never brought it up. the other man has a mouth on him that can slice apart any room he walks into, politics, culture, decay, he can dismantle any argument you hand him. he has not built a single thing in ten years. and when you put them into the same room you notice it immediately. the builder has finished something the rest of us are still chewing on. it took me years to see what finished meant. he made his world, closed it behind him, lives in it now. the other man is still standing outside every door he has ever seen with that brilliant mouth full of words about the doors other people build

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Bahia Youth Orchestra Rehearsal Hall - Salvador, Brazil by Leopoldo Banchini (2023)

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

We seal envelopes not because the letter contains a conspiracy, but because the contents belong exclusively to the sender and the receiver.

The "nothing to hide" argument is pure corporate/state propaganda. Privacy isn't about hiding a crime; it's about deciding who gets access to your life. It’s a boundary of power, not a shield for guilt.

[Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos]

for a brief moment in the 2010s, 3D printing promised to be a way to democratize manufacture of sensitive and controlled objects (guns, medical devices, etc)

then Cody Wilson got busted meeting an underage girl on an 18+ dating app, the german guy who made the FGC-9 “died of a heart attack” in police custody, and now 3D printing is just redditors making meaningless flimsy toys destined for the landfill

[films7 @films7]

Jean-Luc Godard : "Le gros problème des acteurs de cinéma, c'est qu'ils sont souvent très orgueilleux. Alors, il faut leur apprendre l'humilité. Marina Vlady m'a dit un jour : "Qu'est-ce que je dois faire ? Tu ne me dis jamais rien." Je lui ai répondu : "Au lieu de prendre un taxi pour venir au tournage, tu n'as qu'à venir à pied. Si tu veux vraiment bien jouer, c'est la meilleure chose à faire." Elle a cru que je me foutais d'elle et ne l'a pas fait. Je lui en ai toujours voulu pour ça. Ce simple exercice de venir chaque jour à pied au tournage l'aurait fait agir et parler d'une certaine façon qui pour moi était la bonne. Ce que je lui demandais était beaucoup plus important qu'elle ne croyait, car, pour arriver à penser, il faut faire des choses très simples qui vous mettent en bonne condition." (octobre 1967, Cahiers du cinéma n°194)

Anne Wiazemsky : "Jean-Luc Godard nous raconta comment Marina Vlady refusait de tenir compte de ses indications et combien cela l'exaspérait.
Godard : "- C'est pourtant simple, la seule chose que je lui demanderai quand elle fera mon film, c'est de venir à pied de chez elle au lieu de tournage, en banlieue. C'est pas grand chose de marcher à pied. Les acteurs sont horriblement paresseux, tu n'es pas d'accord avec moi ?"
Anne Wiazemsky : "J'avais vu quelques films de Marina Vlady dont la beauté m'émerveillait et j'avais du mal à imaginer l'interprète de La Princesse de Clèves ou de Adorable menteuse faire tous les matins deux heures de marche pour se rendre jusqu'à son lieu de travail. Mais Jean-Luc insistait..." (Anne Wiazemsky, Une année studieuse, Gallimard)

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

If you talk to any old priest who's actually been in the game forty years they're like yes the devil is real and he prefers intelligent people, don't pray when you're angry it opens the wrong door, some saints were terrifying in person and not in a good way, certain prayers work at certain times of night and we don't know why, and never let a possessed person know you're afraid

[Gopesh Khetan @GopeshKhetan]

The Highest Cold Desert In The World.
Katpana cold Desert, India

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

il faut se mettre deux minutes à la place du français moyen, tu bosses tu paies des impôts lourds toute ta vie et en échange tu attends 8 heures aux urgences, ton gamin transpire dans une classe à 30 degrés, tu vois les services publics se déliter et la dette exploser au point de te demander si tu toucheras seulement une retraite

et pendant que tout se dégrade autour de lui, on lui explique que son pays finance le logement d'étudiants venus du monde entier et je crois qu’un état qui n'arrive plus à soigner et éduquer les siens n'a pas à subventionner le confort des autres

d’ailleurs le vrai test c'est la réciprocité, envoyez ce français moyen étudier dans la plupart des pays d'où viennent ces étudiants, il ne touchera pas un centime d'aide au logement, zero, une générosité à sens unique c'est juste de la naïveté déguisée en solidarité, faut arrêter les conneries

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

The moment you realize those old stunning, impossible looking oil paintings of sailing ships in storms were absolutely accurate.